Car troubles? Ask the good automotive phd and self-proclaimed guru of all things mechanical, Walter Crankcase. The only psychic automotive trouble-shooter in the business. Dear Walter Crankcase: Isn’t your pen name a take-off on the famous respected journalist, Walter Cronkite? And if you’re so smart, why is my ’58 VW microbus such a piece of crap? Signed: Doubting in San Francisco Doubting: Of course it is, you Kool-Aid drinking pinhead numbskull, this is a humor column after all. Hey, sorry... Sign in to see full entry.